Firm Launches New Bed Bug Treatment

Rocasuba Inc., a privately held manufacturer of health and beauty-care products headquartered in Mashpee, Mass., has launched a new product called Stop Bugging Me! to help protect consumers from bed bugs.

Stop Bugging Me! is a completely natural, green treatment that is safe for the entire family – including pets – and is laboratory tested and proven to eliminate and prevent bed bugs and their eggs on contact, according to a news release.

The majority of bed bug products have pesticides and are harmful to children and pets. Plus, these treatments, including bed bug sniffing dogs, can cost thousands of dollars.

Bed bugs crawl and hitchhike everywhere – and can often be found in cracks, crevices, walls when moving summer items out of storage and can even live in patio furniture – and are found in incredibly clean homes. Stop Bugging Me! can be sprayed onto any bed bug prone or infested areas – carpets, floors, decking, furniture, linens, clothing, airplane and train seats, hotel room beds and headboards, luggage and movie theater seats. One spray prevents bed bugs for up to two weeks.

Bed bug outbreaks are widespread and not only over the last five years have outbreaks across the country have tripled, the summer of 2011 is projected to be the worst yet. In fact, according to a recent Harris survey, commissioned by Stop Bugging Me!, nearly 75% of Americans would like to know how to protect their homes from bed bugs.

Additional Product Background

Stop Bugging Me! is available at CVS and Duane Reade in a 3-ounce travel-size spray bottle (safe for air travel) that treats approximately two queen-size mattresses or 55 square feet for the suggested retail price of $7.99 and a 12-ounce spray bottle that treats approximately seven queen-size mattresses or up to 215 square feet for the retail price of $19.99. Commercial sizes are also available, including 32 ounces for $14.75, 64 ounces for $26.25, 128 ounces for $46, 5 gallons for $200 and 55 gallons for $2,000.

Also available for commercial, industrial and residential use, Stop Bugging Me!-MAX, is a totally new, EPA registered, water-based insecticide that is highly efficacious in killing and preventing both crawling and flying insects on contact, including bed bugs. The Stop Bugging Me!-MAX spray formula kills bed bugs and their eggs on contact and provides residual pest killing power for up to three months. It is non-flammable, non-aerosol and odor-free and available now in 32-ounce, one-gallon, five-gallon and 55-gallon sizes.